Chapter 13

Don't come back. Don't come back. Contrary to what he said aloud, Rafe really would prefer it if those other vessels decided he wasn't worth the risk.

He'd severely depleted the power core with his flashy display. He'd not seen what other choice he had. He needed into that wormhole, and they stood in his way. Given his dwindling supplies, he needed a quick jump to somewhere no one was expecting him.

Returning to Earth wasn't an option. The bounty hunters he'd gotten rid of surely hadn't been the only ones dispatched to drag him out of there.

The Milky Way galaxy, while pretty from afar, didn't have anything worth sticking around for.

The wormhole it was, but he didn't have time to drag the enemy craft into a chase that would allow him to give them the slip and run back to the hole. He wanted through now, and he would go through now, if those other ships cooperated.

Which, of course, they didn't.